The Heart Sutra

with Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa

Saturday, September 21, 2024
9:30am – 3:30pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
see detailed schedule below

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The Heart Sutra is the most well-known sutra in Mahayana Buddhism. Despite its brevity, this text encapsulates the essence of the extensive Perfection of Wisdom sutras. It serves as a cornerstone for both Sutrayana and Tantrayana traditions and includes the mantra of the perfection of wisdom, guiding practitioners along the five Mahayana paths.

We are deeply honored to welcome Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa to give a commentary on this extraordinary text.

If we are able to read or hear [the Heart Sutra] just one time, the positive imprint left by this definitely causes us in the near future to understand much more easily the teachings on emptiness. We will be able to understand the words and the meanings of the teachings on emptiness very easily, and we’ll be able to have realizations of emptiness easily, quickly in the future. Developing that wisdom ceases the gross and subtle defilements, the mistakes of the mind, and it makes us achieve the sorrowless state, the cessation of the suffering and its causes on our mental continuum, as well as great liberation even from the subtle mistakes of the mind, that which is full enlightenment on our own mental continuum.

— Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Teachings on the Heart Sutra

As one of the last generation of Tibetan Buddhist scholars to begin their educational careers in Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion, Gyumed Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa has played an instrumental role in the reestablishment and preservation of Tibetan Buddhist traditions in exile, and in the spread of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world. Highly regarded for his scholarship and depth of religious practice, Rinpoche teaches frequently in New York, Washington D.C., and at Do Ngak Kunphen Ling (DNKL), a Tibetan Buddhist center in Connecticut, where he hosted a visit from the Dalai Lama in 2012. He is abbot emeritus of Gyumed Tantric College, head of Mey College’s Thewo regional house at Sera Monastery—one of the largest Tibetan monasteries in exile—and Spiritual Director of DNKL.

Schedule

9:30am – 11:30am

Morning session

11:30am – 1:30pm

Lunch break

1:30pm – 3:30pm

Afternoon session

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